WOODBRIDGE - Landscaping pays big dividends in pleasure and enhanced property values. Exterior lighting accentuates the home and the professionally landscaped 65-by-100-foot lot that surrounds this beautifully maintained brick-front and vinyl-sided bi-level on a cul-de-sac in Woodbridge.

The home has important upgrades, include an updated kitchen filled with cabinets with granite counters and stainless-steel appliances. Its formal living room and formal dining room have generous proportions. The home has four bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and a family room with a wood-burning fireplace and ceramic-tile floors.

Other features include hardwood floors throughout the second floor, sliders to a very large second-level deck, a covered patio, fenced yard, a doubly wide driveway and a built-in two-car garage.

The home is convenient to neighborhood schools such as Woodbridge High School, the Middle School and School No. 1 — Mawbey Street School. Commuters will appreciate its proximity to New Jersey Transit bus and rail and all major highways — U.S. route 1 & 9, 35, 27, County Road 514, the Garden StateParkway and New Jersey Turnpike. Local shops and major shopping centers, as well as office complexes, are also nearby.

The home is being marketed for $389,900 by Margaret Gaydos, Realtor Associate, of J.J. Elek Realty. For additional information or to arrange an appointment, call Gaydos on her cell phone at 732-261-3547 or at the office at 732-634-9100. J.J. Elek Realty, at 117 Main St., Woodbridge, is Middlesex County's largest single-office, independent broker, serving the Woodbridge-Perth Amboy-Carteret-Central Jersey area since 1970.